If you're famous and you're good-looking, you have a license to be a cock. And it's quite easy to be a cock in his position. 'He's about as far away from being a cock as you can be. 'I like Brad because he's not a cock,' the British director Guy Ritchie says. And then he'll probably do or say something that will inspire you to tell people that you just met Brad Pitt, and he's not an asshole at all. He'll probably worry that you'll think he's an asshole for forgetting you. He'll probably worry about forgetting you. See The Exclusive Photos by Max Vadukul From This StoryĪnd so, if you ever meet Brad Pitt, you should know a few things: He'll probably forget you. 'You meet so many damned people,' he says. It's gotten to the point where he doesn't even like going out - 'that's why I stay at home' - but he's also a public person, the center of crowds. What's it called? Is he pronouncing it right? That's it: prosopagnosia. He is convinced he has that thing, that condition he read about a few years ago. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. 'So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. 'So many people hate me because they think I'm disrespecting them,' he says. He used to try tricking those he'd forgotten into thinking he remembered them, or at least waiting them out for a clue or scrap of context. He'll try to hold on to its outlines, but your features will suffer an inexorable erasure, and the next time he sees you you'll be brand-new to him. Even if you've had what he calls 'a real conversation,' your face will start fading from his memory as soon as you walk away. If you've met him, he'll have no idea who you are when he meets you again. Published in the June/July 2013 issue of Esquire.īrad Pitt won't remember you.

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